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Gavin Newsom pledged to bring more of California's entrepreneurial spirit to the Capitol as he was sworn in as California's 49th lieutenant governor.
A so-called "shot caller" who was arrested in a crackdown on a Southern California Latino street gang that allegedly sought to eliminate African-Americans from their city was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison.
Authorities say a pilot has been killed after his crop-duster clipped its wing on a tower and crashed in a remote area of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
A San Joaquin County gang member has been sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms for fatally shooting one man and injuring six others in a crowded nightclub in 2009.
A central California congressman plans to move one of his district offices to a government-owned building following the assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson.
The Tea Party Express says blaming the constitutionalist movement and Sarah Palin for the Arizona shooting that killed six people and wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is "outrageous."
Federal prosecutors on Monday dropped all remaining charges against a dozen men once accused of plotting to violently overthrow the communist government of Laos, a move that suddenly ends a 3 1/2-year-old international case that reverberated with the last echoes of the Vietnam War.
Today on The Don Geronimo Show: Saturday was Johnny's birthday, which also just happened to be Elvis' birthday. Don and the guys celebrate accordingly.
Gov. Jerry Brown's office says his controversial pick for the state Board of Education, former state superintendent Bill Honig, has withdrawn his name for the job.
Prison officials say the family of former state Assembly speaker Fabian Nunez sent a Kindle electronic reading device to an administrator in the prison where Nunez's son is imprisoned.
Icy roads caused several car accidents across the Valley this morning.
Gov. Jerry Brown proposed a budget Monday that would slash funding to most areas of state government and maintain a series of tax increases for five years to close California's huge budget deficit.
A Vacaville who reported her 3-year-old daughter missing after she had left the toddler home alone to go shopping and drinking has been arrested, according to police.
California members of the House of Representatives say the shooting of their colleague in Tucson won't deter them from holding public events.
